Quotes About Musical Performance

#1. In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

Oliver Sacks

#2. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Robert Bringhurst

#3. Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Gareth Gates

#5. For the social phobic, any kind of performance - musical, sporting, public speaking - can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false - an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.

Scott Stossel

#6. I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#7. They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

Warryn Campbell

#8. When a band of flute players attempted a musical concert at a triumph in 167, the audience forced the musicians to change their performance into a boxing match.15 In the widening middle classes commercialism

Will Durant

#9. I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

Amy Tan

#10. I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

Kimbra

#11. The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

A.O. Scott

#12. Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Frank Hanny

#13. I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

Kelly Bishop

#14. SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Donella Meadows

#16. I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Brooke Elliott

#17. The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

John Piper

#18. I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Freddie Mercury

#19. Don't step into lives that aren't yours, make choices that aren't nourishing, or dance stiffly for years with the wrong partner, or parts of yourself.

SARK

#20. It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.

Jerry A. Webman

#21. Be good or be gone.

Toni Sorenson